{"id":22800,"date":"2014-08-19T22:58:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=22800"},"modified":"2014-08-19T22:58:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:58:35","slug":"city-of-saskatoon-report-calls-for-rail-safety-changes-re-routing-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/19\/city-of-saskatoon-report-calls-for-rail-safety-changes-re-routing-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Saskatoon report calls for rail safety changes, re routing trains"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SASKATOON — A new report is calling for rail safety improvements in Saskatoon, including eventually re-routing trains outside the city.<\/p>\n

Fire chief Dan Paulsen presented the report Monday to a city council committee.<\/p>\n

He says long, slow trains are preventing emergency vehicles from responding to calls in some neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n

Paulsen says with rail companies applying to the federal government to run even longer trains, it is important to deal with such concerns.<\/p>\n

He says in the long run, the answer is to have trains routed around major population centres.<\/p>\n

Paulsen says over the years communities were built around the rail lines, but it’s coming to a point where the lines are cutting communities in half.<\/p>\n

Mayor Don Atchison echoed Paulsen’s desire to see the railways diverted around the city.<\/p>\n

“It all boils down to money. The railways have all said the same thing: ‘If you’re willing to pay, we’re willing to move,'” he said Monday.<\/p>\n

But he pointed out that re-routing around Saskatoon would be no easy task.<\/p>\n

“You’re talking hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions,” he said, noting that Saskatoon is just one of many cities that would like to see rail lines removed.<\/p>\n

“Perhaps we need to be looking at a federal program that would help to mitigate some of these costs in moving rail tracks,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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